Corset-steel fastening



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T. C. BAT'ESA Corset Steelv Fastening.

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THEODORE O. BATES, OF FORTH BROOKFIFLD, ASSIGNORUOF ONE-HALF TO DAVID H.FANNING, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORSET-STEEL FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,663, dated January18, 18.871.

Application filed September 29, 1880. (Model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, THEODORE G. BATES, of North Brookfield,Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Corset-Steel Fasten ings,ot' which the following description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, is a specication.

This invention relates to corset-steel fastenings, and is an improvementupon that class of fastening shown and described in United States PatentNo. 222,400, December 9, 187 9. In that patent the bifurcated or jaw-like spring or fastening is attached to and located above the usualsheet-metal eye-piece commonly employed to hook over the stud of theother half of the corset-steels.

In practice it has been found that the head of the stud, after thesteels are fastened together, sometimes works under the ends of thespring or fastening part, and passes into the large part of the eye, andso, also, it sometimes happens that the spring-fastening is struck bythe stud when entering the steel through the eye, thus bending it upwardfrom the eye-piece, so that it will'not again resume its proper level tocorrectly co-operate with the stud. To obviate these difficulties Ihavearranged at the under side of the eye-piece the spring or fasteningwhich acts as a holder or stop to prevent the shank of the studworkingbackward along the slot of the eye-piece, and with suchconstruction it will be obvious that the head of the stud, after thesteels are fastened and the stud is at the extreme outer end of the slotin the eye-piece, cannot get between the springfastening and theeye-piece.

Figure l represents a pair of corset-steels provided with my improvedfastening, the steels being fastened together as they will be when thecorset is being worn. Fig. 2 is an enlarged top view of one of the eyepieces or plates with its attached spring or fastening device. Fig. 3 isan under-side view of Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a top view of the eye-pieces withthe spring or fastening device detached; and Fig. 5 is a section on theline av av, Fig. 1.

In the drawings, c b represent two steels of usual construction, thesteel b being provided with the usual headed studs'c. The steel c, at ornear its central part, has two eye pieces or plates, d, of usualconstruction, and at the top and bottom of the said steel are two eyepieces or plates, e, constructed in accordance with the plan adopted byme in this invention. This eye-piece chas an enlarged eye, with astraight slot leading outward therefrom, both of usual shape. Theoutward end of the eye-piece e, or that through which the eye isformed,is struck up in a die and raised or offset, as designated at c',and is also provided with an opening or recess, e2, (shown clearly inFig. 4,) to receive the rear end, 2, of the spring or fastening devicef, (herein illustrated as a wire spring,) shaped as shown in Fig. 3, thefree ends 3 ot' the said spring being so located with relation to theeye or slot in the eye-piece c as to fall at the rear side of the stud cwhen the corsetsteels are fastened together as they will be when beingworn.

InV the act of fastening the two parts ot' the steel together the headof the stud will rst be entered in the large part of the eye nearest theedge of the steel with which the eye-piece is connected, and the studwill then be passed horizontally along, and to the outer end of the saidslot, passing the ends or end of the said spring or fastening device,the latter yielding to the passage of the stud, and then springing backlaterally across the said slot, when itacts as a stop to prevent thebackward movement of the stud c into the eye at the end of the saidslot. This spring or fastening (see Figs. 1 and 2) is located at theunder side ot the eye-piece c', so that when entering the stud throughthe eye of the eye-piece the spring or fastening cannot be struck andbent upward, and as the head of the stud always rests upon the smoothupper side of the eye-piece when the corset is fastened about the personthe said stud cannot possibly get between the spring or fastening andthe eye-piece c, and so work backward along the eye of the eye-piece.The end 2 of the spring or fastening device entered into the opening c2of the eye-piece is prevented from turning upon the said eye-piece, andis held fixed to the steel by the rivet 5.

It is obvious, instead of the wire-like spring or fastening deviceherein shown having two jaws, that I may employ a single jaw. I preferthe wire spring, yet may employ instead of IOO it a fastening of sheetmetal, shaped substantially as shown in United States Patent No.225,375, March 9, 1880, to which reference may be had, the said springor fastening,` device being located, however, in all instances at theunder side of the eye-piece.

It may be found desirable to have all the eye-pieces on the clasps withthis same spring attachment, even to the four usually used, or even morethan four hooks, as alive-hook corset-steel is quite common.

I claiml. In a corset-steel, the eyepiece upon one steel and the studupon the other steel, combined with a spring or fastening device locatedat the under side of the eye-piece, to operate upon the shank of theheaded stud below the eye-piece, substantially as described.

2. The corset-steel a and its connected eyepiece e, provided with theraised or offset portion e and slot e2, and the spring or fastening;

device located thereon at its under side and

